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Dance Place

In its permanent home in the Brookland/Edgewood neighborhood, Dance Place is a hub of activity where a 45-week presenting season, bustling dance school, and neighborhood cultural center thrive on each others' energy. The complex hosts performances of modern dance, traditional African, step, tap, and hip hop, often drawing on the 50 local, 14 touring, and 4 resident companies that call Dance Place home. It is also a world-class school, supporting everything from pre-professional training to a full range of courses for kids, including resident youth performing companies for more serious young dancers. Its NEXTgeneration program offers (deeply discounted or free) after-school academic enrichment and dance classes, job training for teenagers, and a summer arts camp for at-risk youngsters. Its latest venture is the 8th Street Arts Park, the first community park in the neighborhood, built by neighbors, for neighbors. Winner of the 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts (awarded to Founding Director Carla Perlo), Dance Place is theater, school, and community resource in one – an extraordinary combination.

Awards & Recognition

MILESTONES:
2016- Dance Place celebrates the opening of the 8th St Arts Park, the final phase of our arts campus in Brookland/Edgewood
2015- Co-Director Deborah Riley receives the Pola Nirenska award for lifetime service to the field of dance
2014- Founding Director Carla Perlo awarded the DC Mayor's Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts; Dance Place is awarded a $500,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation for "Harvesting Leading Practices" in creative placemaking; Dance Place re-opens our well loved facility after our major renovation and expansion project.
2011—Received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education” in recognition of our extensive programs for youth and selected as one of 12 national grant recipients by Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation
2010—Awarded our first grant from the US Commission of Fine Arts
2006—Founding Director Carla Perlo receives DanceMetro DC’s Alan Kriegsman Award for lifetime achievement and service to the DC Metropolitan area
2003— Founding Director Carla Perlo receives the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington’s Outstanding Founders Award
2002—Director Deborah Riley receives the Pola Nirenska Award for Distinguished Artistic Leadership
2001— Began partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to present emerging DC companies in the Local Dance Commissioning Project
1997— Founding Director Carla Perlo named “Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian Magazine
1994— Created our Energizers out-of-school time programs to respond to the needs of local youth with creative education programs, dance classes and first time job training
1990-1994—Served as national coordinator for DanceAfrica, America, bringing African dance and culture to festivals throughout the U.S.
1988 – Received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts
1985— Selected as a founding partner in the creation of the National Performance Network
1981—Received first NEA (National Education Association) grant and began performing series
1980— Opened The Dance Place at 2424 18th Street, Northwest, in the heart of Adams Morgan
1978- 1980 — Incorporation of DC Wheel Productions and presentation of educational performing arts programs in schools throughout the Greater DC Metropolitan area

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